Gitaly does not directly connect to Praefect. However, requests from Gitaly to the Praefect
load balancer may still be blocked unless firewalls on the Praefect nodes allow traffic from
the Gitaly nodes.
## Distributed reads
> - Introduced in GitLab 13.1 in [beta](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/product/gitlab-the-product/#alpha-beta-ga) with feature flag `gitaly_distributed_reads` set to disabled.